There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINIs it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
-
-
This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEIN -
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEIN






